Did you know...

Posted on 14 September 2014 at 05:31

... that although the type specimen of the black catbird (pictured) was reportedly collected in Honduras, the species has never been recorded there since?
... that Charles Romeyn, an All-American fullback for the Army footballteam, was sent to Montana in 1902 with the charge of "quieting" the Cheyenne Indians?
... that the Irish billionaire property developer Sean Mulryan grew up in rural poverty?
... that the olive-backed pocket mouse keeps its cheek pouches clean by rubbing them in the sand?
... that William Byam's World War I research into trench fever appeared in Lice and their Menace to Man?
... that St Helen's Church, in St Helens, Merseyside, has been described as "the focal point of the town"?
... that the demoness Trijata is described as the ideal of a true friend by Indologist Camille Bulcke?